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Empire Minute 109: Robots Can Be Funny

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🗓️ 12 June 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Sparks fly as they duel, Vader gradually forcing Luke backward toward the gantry. Guest commentator: John Skrzypek See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Star Wars Minute. It's the Daily Podcast where we analyze, scrutinize, and celebrate

0:16.5

Star Wars movies one joyous minute at a time. My name is Alex Robinson from comic book Alex.com.

0:22.4

And I'm Pete the retailer from Nerd Geektor.com.

0:26.5

And I'm John from episode 106 through 108 of Star Wars Minute.

0:31.1

And we are on 109 of Empire Strikes Back, 109.

0:37.3

It starts off with Lea and Lando retreating into the Falcon in Cloud City, and it ends a minute later with Luke Retreating down the Gown Tree, down the Gantree in Cloud City.

0:47.6

Down the Gantree with you.

0:51.1

So yes, a lot of action going on and more droid comedy yes I guess our two and

0:57.3

C3PO being together like it's like the classic comedy team reunited because this is

1:01.7

like the third three minutes third three

1:04.4

droid comedy jokes right well they realize to you know droids so you know robots

1:09.9

can be funny robots can be funny.

1:13.0

funny. Robots.

1:14.7

John weren't you saying that this was the same year as heart peeps or is this before?

1:20.6

Heartbeeps might have in 81. So this clearly influenced.

1:24.0

You know, somebody who's watching this and it's like,

1:26.0

oh, you know what, robots can be funny.

1:28.0

It was the start of the 80s droid comedy boom.

1:30.0

And yeah, I mean, Heartbeats went right down to the bone with a cat skill robot.

1:35.0

Right. Plus you have your short circuit, right? More kind, more droid humor.

1:40.0

All the way up to bicentennial man sometimes that's all I got.

1:45.0

Making Mr. Wright that was funny for some.

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